About Shama
Shama Joshi is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. With nine years of clinical experience, she supports clients facing life transitions and the everyday demands that can undermine well-being.
Background and approach
Her work also includes support for those navigating ADHD and coping with significant changes such as divorce, caregiving responsibilities, or blended family challenges. Joshi draws on a range of evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person’s needs, emphasizing collaborative goal-setting and practical skill building.
Her practice includes attention to attachment issues, communication difficulties, body image concerns, and challenges related to adoption and foster care. She brings a culturally responsive perspective that acknowledges identity and workplace pressures while encouraging clearer self-understanding and improved coping strategies.
In sessions she aims to help clients strengthen emotional resilience, address control and codependency patterns, and develop healthier relationship habits. The therapeutic process blends compassion with concrete tools so individuals can move toward more stable moods, better communication, and a greater sense of agency in their lives.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take committed action despite difficult thoughts or feelings; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and to improve coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns formed early in life and how they influence current relationships, helping those who struggle with trust, intimacy, or communication.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and this therapist works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together the therapist and client review progress and adapt strategies so treatment feels aligned and practical.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options allow clients to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue care during life changes, and use different formats for skill practice and check-ins. Licensed professionals can tailor session style and pacing to what works best for each person, combining therapeutic approaches with the convenience of remote formats.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English